Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1885 – Which future landmark arrives in New York Harbor ? | Statue of Liberty | 100%
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1944 – Iceland declares independence from which country and becomes a republic ? | Denmark | 67%
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1943 – Barry Alan Pincus , American singer-songwriter and producer is born in New York. By what name is he better known ? | Barry Manilow | 33%
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1967 – Nuclear weapons testing: Which country announces a successful test of its first thermonuclear weapon ? | China | 33%
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1953 – East Germany Workers Uprising: In East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into which city to quell a rebellion ? | East Berlin | 33%
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1922 – Portuguese naval aviators Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral complete the first aerial crossing of the South Atlantic. They flew from Lisbon to where ? | Rio de Janeiro | 33%
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1839 – In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issues the edict of toleration which gives which religion the freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands ? | Roman Catholicism | 33%
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1767 – Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sights and is considered the first European to reach which island ? | Tahiti | 33%
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1957 – Philip Chevron, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist is also born on this day. He is best known as the guitarist for which Irish band ? | The Pogues | 33%
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653 – Pope Martin I is arrested in the Lateran Palace before being taken to Constantinople and tried for what crime ? | Treason | 33%
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1939 – Last public guillotining in France: Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is executed outside the Saint-Pierre prison in which city ? | Versailles | 33%
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1462 – Vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II forcing him to retreat from which region ? | Wallachia | 33%
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1579 – Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion for England. What is Nova Albion called today ? | California | 0%
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1963 – The United States Supreme Court rules against requiring what in public schools ? | Reciting of the Lord's Prayer | 0%
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1795 – The burghers of which South African town expel the Dutch East India Company magistrate and declare a republic ? | Swellendam | 0%
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